Airbus Predicts Demand for 39,000 New Airliners by 2040 Written 16 November 2021
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A Lufthansa Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8 at Frankfurt Airport | Kiefer–Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 2.0
Aviation Week reported that Airbus forecasted that some “39,000 new airliners will be needed worldwide over the next 20 years.” Airbus “believes there will be demand by 2040 for around 29,700 small aircraft like the Airbus A220, A320 family or Boeing 737 MAX, and for about 5,300 medium-sized aircraft like the Airbus A321XLR, A330neo or Boeing 787-8,” in addition to demand for about 4,000 large aircraft “like the Airbus A350 or Boeing 787-10 and 777X.” Airbus also expects “to see demand for 880 new freighters.”
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